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The second great announcement in as many days. First the digitised images from the British era in China, and now this terrific initiative. That is not to ignore the American initiatives in digitizing images from China, based in California. Add in Microsoft Internet Archive, Google Books, Project Gutenberg (the grandma project), JSTOR etc and it is now possible to do first rate research without leaving home. For those with lingering reservations about modern technology, these projects should indicate the wonderful new age for researchers. The academic world is indebted to the folk who devote their time to making life easier for those who are otherwise outside the loop of resources in America and Europe. Ian Welch, Canberra >Earlier this week JSTOR announced the 19th Century British >Pamphlets >Project is now freely accessible to all JSTOR >participating >institutions through June 30, 2009. The collection, >created by the >Research Libraries UK and funded by the JISC Digitisation >Programme, >will eventually provide access to a large number of >collections. >"Approximately 8,200 pamphlets were added to JSTOR today, >including >portions of the Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (University >of >Liverpool), Cowen Tracts (Newcastle University), and the Hume >Tracts >(University College London)." > >http://www.jstor.org/page/info/participate/other/britishPamphlets.jsp > > From this page the link to "View title list" will take you >to the >collections. You can search within each collection but >they do not >seem to be integrated into other search features of JSTOR.
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